President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law on amendments to laws on creating conditions for the introduction of comprehensive thermal modernization of buildings. “The law will contribute to the implementation of projects for the introduction of energy efficiency measures and thermal modernization of buildings,” the website of the Ukrainian parliament reported. The Verkhovna Rada … Read more
More than 300 Ukrainian and international IT companies have already been officially included in the legal and tax regime Diia.City, the Ministry of Digital Transformation announced on its Telegram channel on Wednesday. Recent additions to Diia.City include: DataRobot, an international technology company that has created an AI platform for data analysis and predictive business models … Read more
In Ukraine, 60% of IDPs who were employed before displacement have lost their job. This is evidenced by the data of a survey conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) from July 17 to July 23. At the same time, according to the survey, 9% of IDPs had no income since the outbreak of … Read more
NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy sent to eurobond holders through their issuer Kondor Finance Plc a repeated consent solicitation to defer principal payments on them for two years, in which, unlike the original one, it proposes to defer repayment and, accordingly, extend the circulation for two years, not only for eurobonds 2022, but also eurobonds 2024 and … Read more
NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy, which last week defaulted on two out of three eurobond issues due to a government ban on payments on them, received permission to change loan agreements related to these eurobonds. The Cabinet of Ministers published order No. 670 dated August 1 on the same day on its website. Details of the proposed … Read more
In the coming days, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will announce a tender to purchase temporary storage equipment intended for the newly-harvested grain. Farmers from 20 regions of Ukraine will gain access to such equipment. The relevant statement was made by FAO representative Viktoriia Mykhalchuk during a briefing at Ukraine … Read more
The losses inflicted on the agricultural sector of Ukraine as a result of the war amount to $4 billion to $6 billion, representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Viktoria Mykhalchuk has said. “Preliminary estimates from June indicate that the losses inflicted on the agricultural sector as a result of the war are … Read more
India, the world’s biggest edible oil importer, is expected to receive its first shipments of sunflower oil from Ukraine in September after a five-month gap. The relevant statement was made by Bloomberg. According to Sandeep Bajoria, Chief Executive Officer of the Mumbai-based broker and trader Sunvin Group, India may receive 50,000 to 60,000 tons, as Ukraine … Read more
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has stepped up measures to stabilize the situation on the cash foreign exchange market, having decided to sell foreign currency on this market segment, and not only on the interbank FX market. “We have decided to sell the currency for this segment, which was not the case before,” Oleksiy … Read more
The European network of electricity transmission system operators ENTSO-E on Wednesday confirmed its intention to double the import of electricity from Ukraine, which was announced by the European Commission the day before. It was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine. The statement was made during the meeting of the Minister … Read more